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The Nabucco gas pipeline remains a priority for the European Union but the bloc could also back Russia's South Stream project, EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said Tuesday."The European Union's priority is clear. We want to develop the southern corridor. The European Union wants a direct connection to the Caspian and the Middle East region," Oettinger told an energy forum in Sofia.The key component in the southern corridor plan is the Nabucco pipeline to bring Caspian gas to Europe, thereby reducing European dependence on Russian gas supplies via Ukraine.

The European Union's mediator in a gas standoff between Russia and Ukraine urged Moscow on Monday to consider a compromise gas pricing offer for deliveries to Ukraine and he said he hoped to convene more talks this month.
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who has brokered a series of three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the EU, was speaking in Vienna following the latest round of negotiations that ended without a deal in the early hours of...

The Group of Seven nations agreed to find new sources of energy and expand their natural gas infrastructure to prevent Russia from using its oil and gas reserves as a “political weapon,” German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said.
The world’s leading economies will also increase their efforts to save energy and to use renewable power as part of the agreement, Gabriel said at a press briefing in Rome where G-7 energy ministers are meeting today in Rome. The U.K. government is pushing European countries to expand the use of shale gas.

As the war of words between Europe and Russia has escalated, one of the evident outcomes that has emerged is that just like in false flag war over Syria, the Ukraine war was about the simplest thing - a gas pipeline.